Railway-track



I (No Model.)

G. G. BAKER.

RAILWAY TRACK.

Patented Jan. 10, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE G. BAKER, OF DES MOINES, IOWA.

RAI LWAY-TRAC K.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 376,132, dated January 10, 1888.

Application filed Juno 9, 1887.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I. GEORGEYC. BAKER, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident ofDes Moines, in the county of Polk and State of Iowa, have invented an Improved Railway-Track, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to facilitate the building of raih roads, to reduce the cost of construction and repairs, to increase the durability of the rails, and to prevent the dangers and accidents incident to the wear of the abutting ends of rails in a track.

Myinvention consists in the construction of a railway-rail, a railway-chair, a cross-tie,and in forming a complete railway track, as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figures 1 and 2 are perspective views of .pieces of my' rail, showing the form of its opout more rapidly than their central portions.

Fig. 6 shows the chairs formed integral with a metal crosstie.

My rail of novel form consists of two mating parts, A, that are so constructed that each part iscomplete in itself and can be set on either one of its edges on either side of the track, so that each piece is reversible endwise and interchangeable with any otherpiece in a complete track, as required'to facilitate building a track or repairing a track.

The outside face, I), of each piece A is preferably fiat and plain and the inside face a concave. The top and bottom faces of incline upwardtfrom the outside face, I), and inside faces f border the concave c and incline in opposite directions, as required to fit together tightly when combined in a track, so that the head or top of a complete rail will be closed and practically solid, while its base will be enlarged upon the chair, as clearly shown in Fig. 3.

Serial No. 240,738. (No model.)

' G is a flat-bottomed chair that has an upward projection, h, at its center, tapering inward and terminating with ahead, m, that fits into the concave c of the rails when their plain bordering faces f engage the opposite sides of the projection h and their faces (1 rest upon inclined planes n, that extend outward and upward from the opposite sides of the base of the projection h.

n areinclined planes that extend outward and downward from the planes n. Perforationsallow spikes to be driven through the chair into a wooden cross-tie to fasten the chairand rail jointly in a track; or bolts'may be used to fasten them to a metal tie.

. 1" represents an angle-bar or fish-plate fitted to the chair and rail, and fixed thereto by means of spikes, and without boring the rails, to re-enforce the rails and track at the points Where the rails and chairs are jointly fastened to the ties.

I claim as my invention I 1. An improved rail for railways, consisting ofa straight bar having a concave in one of its side faces, and the faces on its edges inclined in opposite directions, and the faces bordering the concave also inclined in opposite directions, in the manner set forth, for the purposes stated.

2. A railway-chair having a vertical projection at its center,- and a head or enlargement at the top of the projection, and an inclined plane on each side of the base of the said projection, for the purposes stated.

3. An improved railway railand track comprising mating rails A and chairs G, jointly fastened to cross-ties, in the manner set forth.

4. Railway-rails having plain side. faces, I),

- concave faces 0, inclined edges d, and inclined faces f, in combination with railway-chairs having projections hm and inclined planes a and a, substantially as shown and described, for the purposes stated.

J. O. TATE, THOMAS G. ORWIG. 

